Ashford Hca 459 Entire Course / Senior Project

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Entire Course / Senior Project

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 1 DQ 1 Organizational Survival Strategies
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 1 DQ 2 The Challenge of Change
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 1 The Health Care Scene Contemporary Trends
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 2 DQ 1 Policy and Planning Constraints
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 2 DQ 2 The Control Process
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 2 Senior Project Summary
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 3 DQ 1 Strategic Planning and Budgeting
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 3 DQ 2 Committees and Teams
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 3 Senior Project Progress Report
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 4 DQ 1 Case Study Authority and Leadership
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 4 DQ 2 Motivation and Conflict Resolution
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 5 DQ 1 Communication Challenges
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 5 DQ 2 The Health Professional as Manager
ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 5 Senior Project

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 1 DQ 1 Organizational Survival Strategies

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Organizational Survival Strategies. This discussion has two options. Please choose either Option A or Option B to respond to. Be sure to indicate within your post which option you chose.
Option A: Hospitals frequently seek ways to ensure survival. Sometimes an adversarial climate cannot be avoided when the action that is being considered is controversial. For example, a hospital may seek to expand its market reach by opening an inpatient drug treatment facility in a small suburban township. The county where the township sits has seen a steady rise in heroin addiction, as well as an increase in hepatitis cases. As a manager, identify the three possible categories of clients within this new clientele network. Give at least one example of a client for each category and explain the reason for your decision.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers. Discuss the benefits of expanding your network. What opportuniti

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 1 DQ 2 The Challenge of Change

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The Challenge of Change. Change is usually positive, but it can also be difficult to embrace at times. Employees can be resistant to change, while managers may feel that it is necessary for organizational stability. Discuss the challenge of change as it relates to health care organizations. What is the overall impact of change on the organization, its employees, and its constituents, and what role does the manager play as an agent of change? In addition to responding to these questions, review the examples of successful change in your textbook and choose two examples to discuss in greater detail. What did you learn from these examples? In each case, how did the individuals overcome the barriers to change, and what were the resulting benefits?
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers who presented an example that was not in your response. What did you learn from the examples they presented? Are you now more a

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 1 The Health Care Scene Contemporary Trends

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The Health Care Scene: Contemporary Trends. As health care leaders, it is important to understand that health care is quite a dynamic field. Its constant changes are a result of continuing trends in regulation, policy, patient and provider advocacy efforts, as well as increasingly sophisticated technology and industry benchmarking guidelines.
For your assignment you review the possible topics for your Senior Project located in Week Five of your online course or in the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide, and select the topic your training program will address. If you choose not to select a topic from the approved topic list, you must have your original topic approved by your instructor prior to submitting this assignment.
For this assignment, focus on a specific contemporary trend in health care and be sure to include all of the following influences:
Changes in client characteristics
Regulation of the health care industry Reimbursement patterns and mandates Restruct

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 2 DQ 1 Policy and Planning Constraints

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Policy and Planning Constraints. Locate an example of a policy or guideline from an external source to a healthcare organization. Explain how this policy or guideline may be a constraint to a healthcare organization’s planning, or how it may shape the healthcare organization’s philosophy. For example, given that the American Academy of Pediatrics offers guidelines on child vaccinations, these guidelines might impact the ability of the healthcare organization to deliver services to newborns and infants. Using a similar example, as well as the characteristics of effective plans as your framework, discuss how proper planning can help organizations in their future decision making.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers. In commenting on the policies that your classmates have presented, describe the relationship between the political environment and health care decision making. Why are they so interconnected?

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 2 DQ 2 The Control Process

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 2 DQ 2 The Control Process

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 2 Senior Project Summary

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Senior Project Summary. Write a Senior Project Summary paper on the selected topic from Week One. In your paper include the following:
Title Page
Anticipated title (this may change for the completed project)
Your name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Introduction: Provide a description of your selected topic (i.e., health care trend) and a thesis statement. Identify the organization that you have chosen to address, including why the issue of your selected topic is important to the health care administrators in your organization, and to the health care industry in general. This should be about one-third of a page.
Scope of the Senior Project: This section should summarize the content topics and sub-topics related to the health care trend that will be addressed in the Senior Project.
Discussion: This section should be a constructive and analytical overview of what was found in the scholarly and professional literature. Make sure to discuss the pros/cons or strength

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 3 DQ 1 Strategic Planning and Budgeting

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Strategic Planning and Budgeting. Imagine you are considering the possibility of operating a small business or practice related to health care, either as a provider of some sort of care or as a service intended to support various provider organizations in their care-delivery activities.
Describe the kind of entity you plan to establish by stating the service or services you propose to deliver and the kinds of clients or customers you would be serving.
Write a few sentences offering compelling reasons for your proposed venture, explaining why you believe it is needed and by whom it is needed. Also discuss any competition you foresee.
Develop an estimate of how much money you will require to establish your business, and state how you would finance your venture. Also discuss your plans for maintaining your budget.
Create a mission or vision statement for your organization.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your pee

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 3 DQ 2 Committees and Teams

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Committees and Teams. Select either Option A or Option B to respond to and indicate within your post which option you chose.
Option A: Identify what you believe are the top three challenges in setting up a hospital-based committee from a managerial perspective. In a 250- to 300- word post, discuss your rationale and address the following questions:
Why are committees advantageous for health care organizations?
What are some of the steps that you, as a manager, could take to overcome these challenges?
How would you address conflict and/or divisiveness within the committee or team?
Option B: Committees have been determined as a necessary component to health care organizations. As a manager, you have been tasked to set up a committee with one of the hospital departments. In doing so, consider the following questions:
How much influence should the committee have in the overall management structure?
How would you maintain authority without adopting an autocratic leadership style?
How would

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 3 Senior Project Progress Report

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Senior Project Progress Report. Complete a two to three page (excluding title and reference pages) report on the progress you have made to date on your Senior Project. You must use a minimum of three scholarly sources. Your report, and any citations used, must be in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Your progress report should cover the following:
1. Topic: Identify the topic that you have selected for your Senior Project and provide a brief explanation for why you have chosen to address this topic
*This may be copied from the Week Two assignment if evaluated as Distinguished Performance.
Otherwise, make adjustments per Week Two feedback.
Organization Specific Rationale: Provide a brief overview of the health care organization that you have
selected for your Senior Project including a summary of the challenges and/or opportunities impacting the balance between health care costs, quality, and access to services that the organization is currently facing. The challenges

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 4 DQ 1 Case Study Authority and Leadership

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Case Study: Authority and Leadership. Review the details of the case “Authority and Leadership: Rising From the Ranks” from your course text, and respond to the following questions:
Identify the potential advantages Julie might enjoy in becoming manager of a group of which she has long been a member, and contrast these with the possible disadvantages that might present themselves because she has long been a member of this group.
Describe how Julie will have to proceed in establishing herself as the legitimate possessor or supervisory authority on the unit, and describe the sources and forms of Julie’s authority.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers. Using the sources of power, influence, and authority, outlined in Chapter 12, discuss with your peers the challenges Julie will face in her new role. How do you think she will ultimately handle these challenges? If you were her, how would you handle them?

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 4 DQ 2 Motivation and Conflict Resolution

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Motivation and Conflict Resolution. Select either Option A or Option B and indicate in your post which option you have selected.
In any organization, regardless of the industry, some level of conflict and/or office bickering is inevitable and may have a damaging impact on productivity and motivation or morale. However, it is the responsibility of the manager to ensure that conflict is avoided whenever possible and, when it does occur, that it is handled in an appropriate and respectful manner. With this in mind, listen to the podcast, Stop the Medical Office Bickering and respond to your selected option.
Option A: Case Study: A Matter of Motivation: The Delayed Promotion
Review the details of the case above from your course text, and respond to the following questions:
Thoroughly analyze the likely state of your ability to motivate yourself in your new position. In the
process, comment to whatever extent you feel necessary on your level of confidence in the relative
stability of your p

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 5 DQ 1 Communication Challenges

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Communication Challenges. Select either Option A or Option B and indicate in your post which option you have selected.
Option A: Compared to a non-healthcare organization, a manager must have a special skill set for communicating with health professionals and non professionals within a health care organization. What do you believe are those particular skill sets? What are the ethical, financial, and legal implications for communication within a health care organization? What are the some of the primary barriers to communication between a manager and his/her staff?
Option B: Case Study: Your Word Against His
Review the details of the case “Your Word Against His” in your course text. Describe in detail any options you could pursue to set the matter straight for all parties who received the wrong information, while incurring the minimum possible public disfavor by the vice president. In addition, describe what you think went wrong this in case. Where was the communication breakdown, and h

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 5 DQ 2 The Health Professional as Manager

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The Health Professional as Manager. Select either Option A or Option B and indicate in your post which option you have selected.
Option A: Imagine your colleague and friend, Jane Smith, has recently been promoted to department manager for your facility. You have worked side-by-side with Jane for the past ten years and can speak to her excellent skills as a health professional. However, Jane has no prior management experience and many of your co-workers are fearful that she does not possess the necessary leadership skills to effectively lead the team. You feel conflicted because you agree with your colleagues but you also have faith that Jane will do her best. Considering Jane’s situation, describe the dual role of the health professional as manager. What challenges do managers face when they make the leap from health care professional to manager? What are some of the common complaints to indicate the presence of ill-fitting management?
Option B: Given the effort and creativity that you

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ASHFORD HCA 459 Week 5 Senior Project

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To start, select one of the following approved topics for your Senior Project. You may also have a topic of your choice approved by the instructor in Week One. Many of the approved topics have specific subtopics outlined and, while these topics are not all-inclusive, they do provide insight into specific areas to consider.
Approved Topics:
1. Examine how participative leadership functions in today’s modern health care organization and compare it to other types of leadership styles. Evaluate how each type of leadership style may impact organizational culture, employee performance, and how it may help or hinder the legitimacy of authority.

2. As an administrator, address the challenges of employee recruitment and retention of health care professionals. Additional subtopics may include trends in the nursing workforce, shortage of primary care physicians, staff turnover, retention, and staffing patterns.

3. Analyze the dual role of a manager and healthcare professional. Examine challenge